go ahead and waste some time with this one....

this site has all your favorite video games (i've been playing 1942) available to play on your computer. enjoy.

oh, by the way i hate this guy already...

the derek jeter center sounds about perfect....

BOSTON -- Could the sports arena in downtown Boston, smack in the middle of Red Sox Nation, would be named after one of the hated New York Yankees?
Maybe, for one day. Or maybe not. The FleetCenter hasn't decided.
It's been selling one-day naming rights for charity while it tries to line up a new long-term naming deal.
The winning bid for Tuesday's naming rights was made by a New York attorney. Kerry Konrad bid $2,300 on eBay. He wants the arena to be known as Derek Jeter Center, in honor of the Yankees' captain and shortstop.
Not so fast, said FleetCenter spokesman Jim Delaney. Delaney said he told Konrad that his naming request might not be accepted.
Konrad is a Harvard graduate with a 20-year rivalry with some of his Boston classmates.
A decision could come today. The FleetCenter is the home of the NBA Celtics and NHL Bruins.

love anyone named wang, particularly "big wang"...

this guy is Chien-Ming Wang, a yankee pitching prospect. in srping training when you f up they make you run laps and you get to pick who runs with you. supposedly wang picked this guy , because he thought it was a sign of respect to the veteran. don't think the unit agreed.

also mac-fu, who told me that reggie roby made punting "cool" in the miami area in the late 80's, told us that wang zhi zhi's nickname on the heat is "big wang". we all have to observe and respect that kind of thunder:

the corporate report, courtesy of andre the giant....

I have a lunch interview with a girl from Kenyon. Can't wait to make her uncomfortable when I offer her sherry – no one ever knows if they should take it or not.

thanks to andre the giant for this one...

ASPEN — Hunter S. Thompson heard the ice clinking.

The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier.

But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.

"It was very loving. It was not a panic, or ugly, or freaky," Thompson's wife, Anita Thompson, said Thursday night in her first spoken comments since the icon's death Sunday. "It was just like Hunter wanted. He was in control here."

waylon and willie for reggie roby....

fredeeky always takes requests

just when we need it most, it's the hipster report courtesy of miller high life...

Some of us haven't had the time or drive to find that "must have" new album, but February, March, April and May are packed with shows you should see. I have broken it down into two sections, my hotlist and the general downtown consensus. None of these are to be missed, many are probably sold out, and info on all of them can be found at www.ohmyrockness.com. Tickets for most shows can be found here or here.
First Teir
Animal Collective - 2/24 - Llano Estacdo; 2/25 - Bowery Ballroom
Luna - 2/26, 27, 28 - Bowery Ballroom (last shows ever)
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - 2/26 Rothko
Castanets - 2/27 - Knitting Factory
Cat Power - 3/9 - Southpaw
Doves - 3/15 - Bowery Ballroom
Slint - 3/17, 3/18, 3/19 - Irving Plaza
The Go! Team - 3/21 - Mercury Lounge; 3/22 - Southpaw
Fiery Furnaces - 4/7 - Northsix; 4/9 - Webster Hall
Magnolia Electric Co. - 4/16 - Knitting Factory
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Mat Sweeney - 4/21 - Bowery Ballroom
Built to Spill - 5/11. 12, 13 - Irving Plaza

Running out of time, but the following bands are coming through and you probably shouldn't miss them either - Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Jayhawks (well, Olson and Louris at Bowery), M. Ward, OCMS, Kasabian, etc...

REJOICE! The Age of Mustache Prejudice has ended, and Mustache Summer has begun!

This site is an archive. Mustache Summer 1999 has come and gone. Who were these men? What was the Mustache Summer movement? This site is an eternal testament to those who braved the anti-stache establishment to forge new paths for today's youth, in a profound effort to liberate the upper lip. Many fought and died (okay, maybe not died), but history will vindicate these hardy souls.

mustachesummer.com is your sanctuary. Revel in what you have accomplished. Envision a brighter, mustachioed future.

¡Viva El Verano del Bigote!

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN
Time Out New York magazine covered our facial-hair movement in its August 5-12, 1999 issue. Read the article here.

this is the best i could find...

love hazing...

that's jeff francis and he was a stud in the minors, but not sure what the colorado air is going to do to him. also liked this spring training photo:

a solid gold turlet....

this guy seems like the man...

Legendary surfer Rabbit Kekai - at 84, the oldest competitor in international surfing events - has said hopes to continue boarding until he is 100.
Known for his "lucky rabbit's foot", he began entering competitions as soon as he learned to surf as a four-year-old child, being taught by his uncle.
"From then on, every day I would come down and ride the board," he said.
Kekai was out in the surf when the Japanese attacked Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in 1941 - the event that triggered full US participation in World War II.
"We were out in the water when that happened - looking down the water, we could see all the smoke," he said.
"We got in and tried to go down and help, but they wouldn't let anybody get in there."
Kekai's legendary status has meant that he has long been considered the teacher of choice for some of America's biggest surf fans.
Among those he has trained are actors Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Kirk and Michael Douglas, who he said "excelled".

an early happy birthday to one of my most loyal readers...

barry, happy 28th. keep commenting and don't let the fact that there's no puck get you down. you're welcome over at macdoogoo to watch nba league pass when ever you want. also, might there be a jersey report/slide show in your future? think about it.

thought this was appropriate...

(from pink is the new blog)

must be a slow news week at the weekly world news...

NYPD Blue might be turning into NYPD PINK if New York's police brass has its way. Top police officials want to change the color of police uniforms in order to give the cops a kinder, gentler image.
"New York police have a bad image," says a senior police official. "Part of it stems from their uniforms looking so gloomy. We want people to think of New York's Finest as New York's Splashiest."

who you gonna call? Malajpur...

Rukmani, 21, is a coy and demure Indian village girl, but her parents are convinced that she is haunted by ghosts."She speaks in a strange language. She speaks of people we don't know. She screams and faints," says her farm worker father.

So they have made a journey from their village in western Maharashtra state to an ancient fair of ghost busters in Malajpur in central Madhya Pradesh to rid their daughter of the ghost.

Rukmani and her parents have joined thousands of "haunted" people from all over India at this month-long ghost busters fair where witchdoctors congregate and exorcise spirits.

Today, Rukmani is one of the first clients to be exorcised as hundreds of the curious look on.

blogging about csi is really lame...

but i'm doing it anyway (with some help from the college of southern idaho)

Look for things to heat up a bit this season among the cast members of CBS' hit drama "CSI."
Seems characters Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) and Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) will get busy beyond their forensic work, according to TV Guide.
"Catherine needs to explore her sexuality and have some intimacy in her life," Helgenberger tells the magazine, out today.
"Warrick has had ideas about her since their early days on the team," Dourdan said. "He's not blind, you know."
Executive producer Carol Mendelsohn wouldn't give away plot points, although she did say there was something between Catherine and Warrick that would come to a head.
"Before this show is over, some 'CSI' will have sex," she said.

MORE CSI NEWS:

Quentin Tarantino has signed to direct the season-finale episode of primetime's most-watched series, CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

Tarantino also has come up with an original story for the episode, which is expected to shoot in early April and air May 19, according to "CSI" executive producer Carol Mendelsohn.

two of fredeeky's favorites getting traded....

c-webb to the sixers



and randy seems headed to the raiders

for reggie roby....

who, like the rest of us, is wanting to hit the links. here's tom watson's legendary chip in to warm your brain up a little bit:

mustache report, saigon edition

so i was outside and my buddy al, who's worked here for decades and sports his own stashe, came out and said, "i like the mustache freddy. real character builder." he then told me that he's had a stache since he was 19 and the highlight of his stashe career was a huge handlebar that he sported when he was with the infantry in vietnam. "used to send down to saigon for a speacial wax," he said with a dreamy look in his eye.

i love this place....

they had fagassi and federer play a match up there. i'd prefer to hit balls off of it for a cool million like tiger, tiger woods y'all.

hey mac fu, i'm real sorry about shaq fu...

but this guy ought to take care of the biz-nass down low. chipped in with 11 points last night so that ought to make you happy. has the mri happened yet? are you holding your breath?

nba league pass update, laramie, wyoming edition...

so i tried to get the nba package last night and i spoke with a nice gentlemen from time warner who promptly let out a mamouth sneeze. i said, god bless, and he said how cold it's been lately. i replied that i didn't think it was too bad and he said that he was actually in wyoming. laramie, wyoming to be exact. crazy right? their other call center is in canada. so i chatted with him about fennis denbo (the only sports star from wyoming i know) he called wyoming the "dubs" (for w i imagine). league pass still didn't come up and then my cable box broke again when he told me to reboot it. i hate how angry no cable makes me and i really took it out on james from wyoming, who thought that he had made himself a new big city friend. anyway cable is back on and the league pass has yet to materialize, but now i realize that cable itself is enough for the time being. maybe when i get back tonite the pass will be on and i can watch rockets/spurs, but i won't be broken hearted if it's not.

bad cop, no donut...

not sure about this one, i just liked the title and the anamation.

reggie roby, 1961-2005...

Reggie Roby, one of the most recognisable punters during his 16 years in the NFL, died of unknown causes on Tuesday at the age of 43.
Roby, a University of Iowa graduate, spent 10 of his seasons with the Miami Dolphins and was known for his abnormal size for a punter - standing 6ft 3in and weighing 260 pounds. He also wore a watch on the field as he was one of the first to promote the notion of the importance of hang time.

(very sad news and i hope that andre the giant's deathtoroby url had nothing to do with this tragedy.)

a belated happy anniversary to the 1980 u.s.a hockey team....

one of the great moments in sports and, although the game wasn't even shown on live television, people agree that this team helped americans who were largely unemployed and waiting in huge gas lines feel good about their country. i would certainly put this in my top five sports moments of all time and i know that barry would likely rank it first.

gosh! whatever i want...

when a-game first went away everyone would ask me what i would do while she was gone. andre the giant advised me to steal a line from napoleon dynamite and say, "gosh! whatever i want!" well what i want is to grow a stashe and get the nba league pass. let me tell you loyal readers, phase one is complete. i have a stashe. i unleashed it in honor of the daytona 500 and it was initially successful. unfortunately today at work (yes i am working today) i have gotten a lot of funny looks. to tell you the truth the stashe is a little lighter than i was hoping for. it needs another week or so to fill out, but when it does watch out. also if anyone cares i am calling time warner cable tonite about the league pass. the rockets sonics game will be only incredible.

sad news....

unter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 65.

fantastic...

fredeeky loves nba hoops and watched josh smith of the hawks win the slam dunk contest on saturday night. this dunk over kenyon martin was sort of filthy.



then on sunday a.i., fredeeky's favorite non-knickerbocker and the n.b.a.'s current scoring leader , picked up the game's mvp award.

lots of shocker news on gawker today...

and



order your own foam big shocker here

koko gets what koko wants...and koko wants nipples and kittens...

Two former employees of the Gorilla Foundation, home to Koko the "talking" ape, have filed a lawsuit contending that they were ordered to bond with the 33-year-old female simian by displaying their breasts.
Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller, both of San Francisco, are taking on the Woodside nonprofit and its president, Francine "Penny" Patterson.
One example: "On at least two incidents in mid-to-late June 2004, Patterson intensely pressured Keller to expose herself to Koko while they were working outside where other employees could potentially view Keller's naked body. ... On one such occasion, Patterson said, 'Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see new nipples. I will turn my back so Kendra can show you her nipples.' "

for updates on a-game and k-dog....

visit their very own blizzy at: http://kimandanna.blogspot.com/

throw some comments up there everybody.

anything pork related will be blogged about...

SUFFOLK — Most drivers know that ice can make roads dangerously slick. But some hazards are a bit harder to foresee.
Piping hot pork grease, for example.
Late Wednesday morning, rescue workers finally finished mopping up 3,000 gallons of grease that spilled out along miles of local highways.
The grease, traveling in an 8,000-gallon tanker truck headed from Smithfield to the North Carolina-based Central Feeds late Tuesday, began dripping out of its container on the Va. 10 ramp to U.S. 58.

the a/c/e is so hot right now

this is just like a csi episode, but vegas not miami.

A blood-curdling scream pierced a dark Brooklyn subway tunnel early yesterday when two transit workers found a bloody trash bag packed with an arm and two legs.
The mystery only deepened when cops who rushed to the scene found a second bag - full of bloody tools and drill bits.
"There was a foot protruding from one side," one of the shaken workers told the Daily News, hours after spotting the severed limbs inside a tunnel of the Nostrand Ave. station, near Fulton St.
"You could tell it was fresh," he said. "The blood on the roadbed was still wet."

thank you page six...

Rizzo, a former Chicago police detective who has seen photographs of Jackson's genitals taken by cops in 1993, claims that because Jackson "bleaches" his body twice a week, distinctive markings on his penis are visible when he is aroused.

"It looks like a barber's pole," Rizzo tells PAGE SIX. "That's exactly what it looks like. The first kid and all the other kids who have seen his penis know that there are brown circles around it.

as f'ed up as it is, it's not such a bad idea...

"Girls are unapproachable," contends Nick Safford, a 21-year-old single guy from Oakton who founded Angels of D.C. "And girls don't like to approach guys -- they're scared to death."

Solution to the deadlock: a hired female "friend" who acts as a go-between. She'll make you look good. She'll chat up a possible target. She'll "do her best to keep the conversation flowing and keep you involved in it," promises Safford's Web site, www.angelsofdc.com. "We are here to help you succeed with women and keep you off of 'death row' . . . that group of guys who lean on a railing, sip their drinks, and watch other people out having fun and meeting women."

handpainted russian movie posters make even these crap sandwiches look delightful...

they bootleg 'em so rapidly over in russia that they can't get posters out fast enough. so they do it themselves:

matrix 3:

troy:

kill bill (supposedly)